gavinward

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by gavinward 19d ago
I think Hydrofluoric acid is probably the substance you're describing which leaches the calcium out of your bones. It will certainly burn you too though. It's a common byproduct from heating fluorinated gases and is sometimes used
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by gavinward 3mo ago
Despite the name I would not have guessed you could pick up Atlantic 252 in the US. The quality of it wasn't great for listening to music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_252 "Although the transmitter
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by gavinward 10mo ago
The endgame is getting corporate customers hooked on cloud-hosted subscription-model everything, then jacking the prices up.
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by gavinward 10mo ago
The same with the AI thing Meta added to Whatsapp. After spending a while trying to search for a message whose exact wording I couldn't remember, but whose content was easily described, I thought I'd give the bot a try. Turns out
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by gavinward 1y ago
I find it interesting that the Spanish consider the ñ to be a separate letter, in their 27 letter alphabet.
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by gavinward 1y ago
> if you didn't know better It's funny how The New Yorker clings to this given its readership is mostly people who absolutely do know better.
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by gavinward 1y ago
The author, if I remember correctly from twitter, was a thorn in the side of the people who developed this system for quite some time. Given his profession I expect he made sure he was on the right side of the law before publishing this.
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by gavinward 1y ago
Agreed. I can't think of another area where AI could amplify the effect of my existing level of knowledge as it does with coding. It's far exceeding my expectations.
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by gavinward 1y ago
It must be heartening for a startup trying to build the best general search engine in the world to know that Google has absolutely no interest in competing with you.
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by gavinward 1y ago
I asked it to phrase something in early modern English and then asked it a few unrelated questions without closing the window and it kept up the bit (doth this answer please thee?) and I felt obliged to keep laughing at it just like I would
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by gavinward 9y ago
Ironically I had to open this in a browser to make this comment (since no app supports that advanced feature) but FYI the mobile version of Firefox supports the queueing up of multiple links for later viewing, rather than immediately switch
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by gavinward 10y ago
Indeed. In Europe Monaco is a popular place for very rich people to (pretend to) live due to the lack of income tax. You are restricted in how long you can spend in other countries before being deemed to be domiciled there for tax purposes
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by gavinward 10y ago
Place whatever value on this you like but I also had a Samsung 840 500GB SSD fail just last week that was almost exactly three years old. It came with a three year warranty so I guess that's the only upside. It's maddening that no
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by gavinward 13y ago
That anecdote appears to relate to Broadcom rather than Qualcomm.